Spellebration Friday, April 7 Doors at 5:30 PM – Spelling at 6 PM Come one, come all to a night of outrageous costumes and spelling feats! Spellebration is an adult Spelling Bee and silent auction that benefits Literacy Outreach and the CMC Learning Labs. Teams of three can spell or buy their way to the […]

Literacy Outreach and the Colorado Mountain College learning labs would like to thank all the participants, volunteers and sponsors who made Spellebration 2016: Passport to Literacy wonderful. Held March 4 this adult spelling bee and silent auction raised $18,000 to support adult literacy in Garfield County. Twenty-six costumed teams with names like “Lost in Translation,” […]

Change the World One Word at a Time Volunteer today to change the world one word at a time. Volunteers are need to tutor adults learning basic literacy skills. Some struggle to read and write. Some struggle to improve their oral English skills. No special skills are required. You do not need to speak a […]

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Support Literacy Outreach on Colorado Gives Day Colorado Gives Day is an annual statewide movement to celebrate and increase philanthropy in Colorado through online giving. Colorado Gives Day features a $1 Million Incentive Fund, one of the largest gives-day incentive funds in the country. Every nonprofit receiving a donation on Colorado Gives Day receives a […]

Literacy Outreach receives El Pomar grant Literacy Outreach recently received a $2,500 merit grant that was awarded through the Northwest Regional Council of the El Pomar Foundation. El Pomar Foundation has 11 regional councils that represent the entire state of Colorado. The councils are responsible for funding projects in their region. Each council is composed […]

Deb Nicholson, Tinker Duclo and Bob VonAchen solved the mystery of the misspelled word at Spellebration on Friday, March 15 at the Hotel Colorado. This team of three spellers, sponsored by Colorado Mountain College West Garfield Campus, successfully defended their title as the best spellers in Garfield County. They correctly spelled the penultimate word, “treen,” […]

Learning to read as an adult is like walking out of a long, dark tunnel into sun. Maybe. Actually, it’s probably more like wanting desperately to get out of a labyrinth of tunnels but you don’t know where to turn. Then someone says, “Go this way. It will be hard, but someone will be there […]

Spellebration 2015 will attempt to solve “The Case of the Misspelled Word.” The annual costumed adult spelling bee will celebrate famous detectives and the solvers of mysteries. Spellebration is the major fundraiser for Literacy Outreach and the CMC Adult Learning Labs. The popular event will take place on Friday, March 13, 2015, at the Hotel […]

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Thank you Everyone! Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and express our gratitude for the things we appreciate most in our lives that we may not always take the time to acknowledge. Literacy Outreach is grateful for all of our volunteers and students. We couldn’t do it without your help.